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Recently my primary harddisk died, so I replaced it with a brand new drive. So currently I have two 2TB drives installed. The new drive holds a swap partition, a system partition and a data partition.The second drive is only for data.I did a fresh install last weekend and so far aside from the mythtv-dying problem everything seemed fine.However I'm now experiencing system-freezes at least once a day. I checked around the logs and find things like this:

As you can see 23:26:35 was the last entry..and 8:50:07 is the time I restarted the system.So far I checked the drives for smart errors, but there were none. I checked around google a bit and it seems it might be a software issue. So what do you guys think? The next thing to change would be the mainboard then (inkl. cpu).Any input is welcome.

No, I'm not using any kind of raid system. When I started with linuxmce, back with 7.10, I had a hdd for the system and an IDE-Hardware Raid with 4 320gb hdds. Later I moved the data stored on that via webadmin to a 1TB disk. That was the only time I used RAiD.Currently I have a 2TB disk with around 250GB for the system, 5GB swap and the rest for storage. By the way...remember when I went to the irc with the circular links? Well, I later realized my error- I had the remaining 1.8 TB mounted as /home...which of course was wrong, because then it was detected and I answered wrongly.Anyways. I did a fresh install, wiped everything from that disk and here we are.I am however a bit more inclined to think I have a hardware issue, because I just came home finding the system hanging again. I checked the logs..and so far I can see nothing suspicious around the time the thing crashed.I saw this one

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mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!

5 minutes before the server freezes, but nothing else.Right now I'm just guessing...

well...tossing out the mainboard I did.call me master of desaster from now on...first the harddisk dies and as it turned out the mainboard's the culprit for it all. I found out for sure, when it didn't even want to boot from my usb-stick anymore.So now I'm at my 10th install of linuxmce 1004.. at least everything is working as it should be :-)

I've had errors like those, including the hard resetting link when one my raid 1 sets was doing it's weekly checks. Occasionally, it would become totally unresponsive, requiring a power down of the system in order to restore it, and then I'd have to re-add it to the array and re-sync. It's happened a few times (and only under heavy load), and I was close to RMA'ing the drive. Then, this past Sunday morning I found my server off, and unable to power it back up. The power supply had quit (and probably been on it's way out for a while due to capacitor aging), and was likely browning out under load. So it's possible your power supply is on it's way out, or it's under-powered for the load.

Try entering everything you have, and see what the recommended size is. You can also add 30% for capacitor aging if your power supply is over a year old. You'll be surprised how much it changes when you factor that in.